Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Calendars Everywhere

I’m in the midst of working on a really great quilt project which I hope to show you soon. In the meantime, I have other projects to share.

Last September I told you about my perpetual birthday books project. My husband asked me to also make regular calendars featuring photographs he’s taken this year. The latter is the type I usually do each year anyway, so the Microsoft Word template I created years ago made it a relatively easy task for me.

We decided the perpetual birthday calendars would go to my side of the family and the regular ones to his side. Both calendar formats were our New Year’s greetings to family members.

The cover photo was taken at sunset when we were at the Grand Canyon last summer.

You can’t see it, but there’s a clear plastic page protecting the cover which was printed on white cardstock. The calendar back is a golden-brown piece of cardstock. I have a couple of different binding machines at home which makes it easy to put such projects together.

Each month has the requisite holidays and birthdays noted. I print the calendar pages themselves on glossy white presentation paper using my laser printer. The photo pages are printed on my color printer one page at a time because I’m forever forgetting which way to insert the paper so they print in the correct orientation for proper assembly.

Because of my fondness for such things, I applied myself to satisfying my calendar itch yesterday via free projects found at HP Creative Studio.

3 comments:

They're all beautiful June! I love that you printed and bound them yourself. I gave family members calendars containing pictures that I took of them and other family members this year -- they were a big hit. For me, I did a calendar of some of my favorite projects. I had mine done on-line though -- not nearly as cool as yours!